Ideas Podcast | Karl Marx’s Capital

Описание: Listen in to the Ideas Podcast with Paul Reitter (editor and translator), Paul North (editor), and Simon Vance (narrator and editor of the audiobook edition). They discuss the crafting of this first new English translation in fifty years—and the only one based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself.

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Karl Marx (1818–1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. Though only the first volume saw publication in Marx’s lifetime, it would become one of the most consequential books in history. This magnificent new edition of Capital is a translation of Marx for the twenty-first century. It is the first translation into English to be based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself, the only version that can be called authoritative, and it features extensive commentary and annotations by Paul North and Paul Reitter that draw on the latest scholarship and provide invaluable perspective on the book and its complicated legacy. At once precise and boldly readable, this translation captures the momentous scale and sweep of Marx’s thought while recovering the elegance and humor of the original source.

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Paul Reitter (editor and translator) is professor of Germanic languages and literatures and former director of the Humanities Institute at the Ohio State University. His translations include The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon (Princeton). Paul North (editor) is the Maurice Natanson Professor of German at Yale University. His books include The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation. Simon Vance is the editor of the audiobook edition.